0:00 I was like you know the meal preps working out in the morning joging like running like crazy this looks like the get lean program yeah you're you're freaking your journey was crazy yeah show them your abs dude I don't have any show them your abs right now lift it up time's up time lift it [Music] up all right welcome back everybody to an amazing episode of the careful boys where today we are sitting here with the man himself Mr Michael Lee AKA just Michael raise your hand if you have no idea who he is we follow each other on Instagram I have something to say why do you have what what do you have against him being hydrated yeah What's your deal dude cuz it's not it's not careful boys or barbell merch what actually I just bought the barbell uh Vietnamese coffee
0:51 you did oh thank you so much that's not that's truth baby's truth you could drink as much water as you want yeah yeah D drink as much water like I say okay so better questions Bart does it taste good I haven't tried it I just got it water yeah gave me a it's my favorite protein we've dropped in our history your guys's ads are my favorite agree can I say something I bought um I bought Optimum Nutrition uh a protein brand against they got cool ads that are racist yeah they're not but I bought I bought a a mocha cappuccino flavor you you know why I bought it actually too when you posted you had the caption in Asian in an Asian accent and maybe and maybe want to buy it more oh has nothing to do with protein or nutrition facts or it worked I was like
1:41 that looks cool it l it looked funny yeah it worked that's that's what's kind of hilarious we've speaking of first week of October careful Bo let's go baby let's go dang that was smooth no that's that was something that we notice that's really weird like we if we actually talk about the main points of the product like how good they nobody cares no one gives a ████ don't tell me the health benefits yeah we just do something fun and people love it you think it comes across like salesy if you do it that way instead of making fun of whatever the which by the way is another opportunity reminds you that we have merchandise but for me like say I'm buying a car right I want to know oh cool like this motor this I like knowing specs I don't want to be like the car commercials like how much ████ you're going to get in this car I think for most people they go this
2:31 is the kind of ████ you're going to get and you're like oh I'm going just let me get that car right away it's subliminal dud so I thought I thought protein would be like that if you're like okay cool this is zero fat zero carb you know and then people oh I want that but it's not they don't give a ████ they go oh what the hell this guy's doing a ching chong commercial ████ yeah it's like it's Loki the standard already cuz a lot a lot of people already are like yeah I worked really hard in this product so like it's kind of it's a lot about marketing I have never seen that flavor though for that product I've never seen that and fact that was Vietnamese coffee and I'm vietamese so I was like oh oh and it's very it's just just so good it's really good that is huge too though because like 99% of like all protein that you find in the store is like chocolate vanilla maybe strawberry or strawana and guess what they all tastes like ████ they hon do they honestly do but this one actually tastes like except for fair
3:21 life shout outs to Fair life their stuff's really good I don't know how they do it not sponsored but go support them I like how have you had Quest conflicting show Quest what nutrition like all their whole I have and what are you about to say yeah they're all their products are really good they sent me a care package the they're so good what were you about to say what were you about to say shakes the protein sh yeah there's a caramel flavor and it tastes like a it tastes like a a Starbucks like he's going to clip this later for his ad yeah what were you about to say though yeah can I be real why don't you pigy back off that I think in 2014 or 2015 I was sponsored tastes like ████ but I just still just drink it cuz I was sponsored and I'm Asian so if you get it for free it's like you have to just tast
4:11 got uh but their Quest chips is the first thing that made me fall back in love with their new stuff and I have never tried any of their new new because I'm scared of how nasty used to taste I I I so I I got their chips right and I I like post on my story I was like Hey like I love your stuff they I asked them for a care package so they sent me everything else too wow so I was like low key I'm not going to lie I was like damn like I don't want to waste it cuz I felt the same way cuz it tastes like ████ everything tastes so good it it it mimics every single chip brand like from LS to uh freaking Takis yeah yeah yeah yeah like literally everything I like the pink one the green one and the blue one green one's my favorite it's funny how it went from a barbell ad to now a quest ad but that's how it goes here dude but
5:02 we're trying to get to know Michael oh yeah we know he likes Quest dude know that so is he a fitness influencer are we trying to guess no I I I'm getting back into yeah you guys should definitely try to guess I I I I okay stino's Anthony you dance good deduction right there that's a pretty good all right all right he does do that he does do that getting warm actually that's pretty much on the button this exactly what I actually don't think that there's other way describe what's the difference between dancing and making Tik Tok videos no they're just two separate things but fused together he's dancing on a Tik Tok and instead of dancing on Yahoo but I'm not like a I'm not a Tik Tok dancer though it's like a difference you know he went viral through email dude what what was that no there's there's like
5:52 cuz you know when you hear like Tik Tok dancer it's not like real dancing so I like I come from like the background of like an actual dancer like oh some of the dancers I see on Tik Tok are crazy well now they are now yeah yeah before they weren't like all the twerking that's crazy d That's great dance so so you twerk on Tik Tok yeah yeah okay got you when you say you came from like like traditionally trained like what's your dance background like I started I started dancing in 2012 at a studio and like jazz no hip-hop okay all specifically hipop question and then 2015 I like quote unquote be became like professional is started doing like music videos and like the laddin and then I started social media doing dancing and then fast forward to 2019 that's when Tik Tok came out and I was like the first PE person to like be on it type of thing and the first week I hopped on I gained like a million
6:42 followers in a week holy ████ the first week and then after that can you teach us a class yeah and every week after that I kept gaining a million and then by like a million a week holy ████ you know how long it took us to hit 2 million I never heard anybody brag like that yeah I know it was it was Wild by the time by the time I moved out it was like May 2020 I had like 25 million on your Tik Tok What do you have Now 52 God damn does it ever go down that's a small country bro I know it's it's wild no you're more than South Korea it honestly doesn't like Russia I would say followers on Tik Tok doesn't even matter as much though anymore why cuz it's all Chinese no cuz the video doesn't go viral it won't go viral like you'll have like a base set of views I see what's your B set what's like your Baseline if it's like a bad video yeah what's a bad
7:34 video like 2 to 400,000 views what the ████ like it's a good video it'll be like but that's a huge disparity though if you got 50 million views I mean uh subscribe followers and then you got 400,000 that's a huge but that also means every video he posts all of Bakersfield watches it oh yeah every single video Bakers Fresno Modesto the whole y dude Yuka dude all of yuka's dang Prett can I a maybe racist question depending if you're racist or not yeah all right are you racist if you're if you're really good at hip-hop right uhhuh and like let's say You outd dance a black guy yeah do you was think can you take their black card away oh and you're like I'm more
8:24 black than you I felt like I I I it wasn't more of like if I'm better than them but like if I danced around them a lot in a circle no no more of like in Florida I used to have only like as or no no Asians there was no Asians really in Florida around me it was all Black and Hispanic people so I felt like I was like part of them that's why like if you go back I kind of like looked more Hispanic and I talked more like ghetto kind of I don't know like I just had like more of like an accent like kind of like just how it was yeah and then um you know I felt like I was a part of it you know but no I wouldn't say would to say I'm racist you don't think of black then would to say I'm racist they don't they don't you don't take their card if anything they like uh give you like a hall pass of acceptance for that moment to say what word they
9:14 give you a h pass to say what word anony this is the clip that get C say what set this up he wants the Eminem Hall Pass when I could when I mean a black dude that could speak better Chinese in me I'm like you call me what the ████ you want you get extra points you see those uh the black arban singers in the Farms yep they've been singing away dude the agriculturalist singers it looks no there's like it's I feel like they're African Farmers that learn Chinese really well and then it it's almost like they Farm by day and at night they sing Chinese karaoke and it's like perfect it's perfect you don't know what I'm talking about I've never seen those dudes it is pretty crazy to see like a non-asian person speaking Mandarin like perfectly
10:04 you just go like I'm for me I don't speak so I like go I've been man my Japanese car has been taken so many times I'll be in Japan ████ and like I see a black guy and I'll be like oh ████ what's up dude and then they can't even speak English and ████ and then they just speak perfect Japanese and I'm like oh man you're I thought you're La man they're they're ripping your Japanese car in front yeah dude it's ripped up you can't get it back I'm the one with wrong Japanese on my body and it's technically a different kind of right is it you know the first character actually I think in Chinese it says like ████ uh dinosaur or some ████ really yeah dinosaur which one yeah the very first the top character top one says dinosaur in Chinese it's like the beginning of dinosaur in Chinese wait so it's not proper like you n it's wrong there's nothing proper it's proper dude don't be spreading false lies it's proper dude it's ████ hardcore I am
10:55 kind of nervous that a Japanese person's going to look at my shin and then look at me with disg and that makes they're going to laugh at you yeah and I'm like I don't know if I'm ready for that yet do you think it's going to throw off a Japanese Jiu-Jitsu like oh it might be a good technique you could compete in Japan only compete in Japan it be like what is that and then you're like surprise ████ you're sitting real nice dude have you guys seen Steve's lately his mosquito by air is ████ up oh really yeah it's like the Ink's not even there so he's just got like blot no oh my he's got to get retouched it's ████ funny dnor dude so what made you jump on social media with your dance and stuff um o it was actually it was like all the you guys were like one of the first YouTubers I watched too it was like you guys Ryan Higa Kev Jumba uh smos it was like the the ogs I felt like
11:46 y oh so you watched back in the 20109 and you still didn't know what we did what do you mean I do I'm just kidding no he said he just doesn't watch this show no I just I don't watch podcast I only watch anime I'm not going to lie you you're talking about the old school just King film stuff I'm talking about like Uncle chin yeah yeah that's OG that's tight than you it was cool Timothy there go yeah so I felt like I I started social media cuz like y'all were like having a lot of fun and it was like basically a career like I basically saw it and as a dancer there's only like so much you can do like there's a certain like level you know like a ceiling of like is this going to make me money type of thing cuz I I was always very business-minded so I was like okay what if I put dance and like social media and I kind of do that and I I personally like that cuz like even if I didn't make
12:37 enough money at the time I still loved it so like I did that compared to like working at 95 so yeah that's why I started did you have the common Asian struggle where your parents were like what the ████ are you doing yeah yeah my whole family everyone was like just like you should go to college I dropped out of high school be a pharmacist you dropped out of high school that's even crazy I dropped out uh after sophomore year wao that's do you even know your continents then doesn't matter see doesn't matter no I I was I was I was like the typical Asian where like I was like dual enrollment straight A I was doing college classes already so like by the time I was sophomore and sophomore oh you could drop out bro I was doing pre-cal already oh you're smarter than the average American at sophomore after that had like that like senioritis my dad had like a screen printing embroidery business and he was
13:27 like oh help me and I was like oh yeah please so I quit school I did that and then I that was Dad convinc you to quit school yeah that's and then so your dad child labored you yes F tight Asian I started off I did like it was supposed to be like 9 and5 but I ended up being the only worker there the 9 and9 so like yeah like a 9 to 12 type thing it's like I replaced my 9 to5 for a 5 to n let's go yeah so it that that was like a thing that made me like okay I never want to do a 9 and5 again and then social media started popping off or at least d dancing like being a choreographer and stuff and then yeah 2019 happened and now I'm here what did your uh family say when they just see you like cuz you know like when you do your own thing you're just in your own lane and you're in your own world when did it first go back around and reach your family where they
14:17 discovered your stuff through their own like feed when you like bought them all mansions and ████ that's pretty cool um like where they like started supporting where they're just like what the ████ I know that guy uh I would say more i' say more of when 2019 I mean when 2019 happened like my whole life like flipped cuz I was live with my parents and then I moved out like a couple months afterwards and then I moved my mom and siblings out here so like my whole like income like you got money like that 100x and 100x yeah I mean I was like literally dirt I didn't have anything and then I I bought a house or I didn't buy a house but like I I prepaid like a house during coid a year up front because like I was so young I couldn't like just like be like oh yeah how much money did you make in 2020 you think 20 like probably 3 to 4 mil damn good
15:08 job and this is purely through Tik Tok yeah like sponsorships like I was getting like sponsorships of like 50 to 100 150 like per brand deal yeah like promote these ████ new Quest chips like you secretly just did he Grand right now he's working on his next sponsor no but it was crazy cuz like Tik toks are like 15 30 seconds so I was like you could crank them out like crazy yeah and that's all I was doing did you have an agent breaking the deals for you or did you do all the negotiations yeah I had different agents and stuff and then I found like a person that stuck with so yeah when you first got your check like were you like what the ████ what was the first crazy that's a salary of a person's whole year in 30 seconds I remember the first day of like living in La cuz I got like this it was a it was a three story it was like a a b
15:59 basement a giant basement with like a theater a whole like gym indoor pool outdoor pool it was everything so like the first day I moved in I woke up that morning and I like I was like is this real like am I is it really happening so it was crazy oh cuz you moved in from like your like the house you grew up in what was the most irresponsible purchase that you made ████ the nft the nft ████ what you buy everything did you buy an egg ████ everything I spent like I I probably lost like 2 mil I'm not going to lie I spent a lot do you feel bad anymore Anthony I mean it's all relative if he's making 3 to 4 mil and losing 2 that's different from if you're making ████ feel like I I got all of my bad ████ out of me though from that and like I kind of learned from there but no that was it was like it was just like money management I wouldn't say nfts itself was bad cuz like I I was able to like
16:49 figure ████ out but like it was it was a bad GJ moves yeah that was really really bad you still make the same or more or less um now I I would say I make a little bit less but it's also cuz I'm like rebranding I'm trying to refocus cuz like I feel like I even though I blew up I like started focusing on ████ I didn't want to focus on which was like you know what works versus what you want to do I was fully in like ████ let's do what works like play the algorithm yeah and then I lost I lost like my uh who Am I who was what an example of what worked and and what something that you wanted to do twerking twerk yeah I was twerking on camera I actually was I throw in the back yeah okay so twerking definitely worked it was a little cringy that's what he wanted to do that's not what just works oh yeah yeah clarify here no it was um yeah I feel like I
17:40 stopped I F I stopped dancing for a little bit too like for like a solid two years Dam and then now I'm like what kind of Legacy do I even have so like now I'm like really rebranding and really trying to focus on to like how like can I like change the dance world he was even in that uh group that did the Tik tokers versus YouTube YouTuber boxing match that in a Creator's boxing thing so okay remember who did you go up against I went uh against FaZe FaZe Jarvis okay okay so I had it was crazy so Austin came into my house like two three like 3 months before he offered like the deal was supposed to be for 400k okay I had one month to train what did one month of training my whole like fitness journey completely like 180d and that was like the first time I ever got super it and then how much were you
18:30 training a day um I was training pretty much every I was training every day for for the month but the thing was like we had like technically two to 3 months but they didn't give me any trainer or anyone so I had to look and I couldn't find anyone good until that last month oh ████ so I was just training on my fitness for that for that meantime this guy man you should have this guy train if you want to get knocked out bro you can hire me man I'm really good at I'm really good at getting knocked out thing is like I'm very proud of like how far wen't you scared that's awesome weren't you scared or you just like scary bro it was nerve-wracking no no was it your first fight yeah I never fought like ever are you going to do it again you think you would um if I trained in it yeah I think I would it was just it was a lot of that that actually made me Rebrand because I realized from that
19:20 fight um it was a lot of hate during it and afterwards cuz I lost and why do people hate yeah what because people are just like they their kids every it's like high school like on steroids so everyone like every video I posted for like the next eight months like but you lost though or yeah it's like oh still you are you woking up are you like you still sleeping like those type of ████ it was so aggravating but like you trained for only a month that made me like realize I was like this is like this is the brand I have like I don't have like a loyal kind of thing and that's why like it's too like fast food yeah yeah exactly that's why I was like I need to like switch this up I need to focus on something I actually love and then I can actually have have like an audience or like fan base that actually like you know ████ with me type of thing good thing you're here we're the Cockroaches of YouTube we just survive bro no no this is this is really cool
20:10 like I'm I'm like still nervous right now cuz I'm like holy ████ still I've watched you you're about to show us something that you're proud of yes well you're going to show us that you punch somebody no no no no my uh he's going to show us his hands it's your body transformation yeah you were probably ████ fat no were you fat or skinny I was I was pretty ████ chubby were you yeah cuz I didn't really work out did you make it as a chubby dancer yeah I was doing pretty good I wasn't chubby I was just like skinny fat I like that one fat guy that dances really well in China I know one in Korea that danc like that he always wearing goggles I like that wait is he the the one that dances in the rain talking the guy that does Ray J's one wish and he like get his clothes thrown at him that clip is ████ money that was good they better hurry up dude running out of
21:01 time bro this is my this was my journey damn I like how you put the dates right over your dick so you can't just in case wow CA Fitness guys holy ████ got this is a one month transformation that was probably like 3ish months but it was like hard bro you're ████ Jack dude I I'm different now but this was like I'm different now I'm getting back to that I'm getting back to turn it to Bruce man yeah I felt I felt really good damn good job hell yeah good job I was like you know the meal preps working out in the morning joging like running like crazy this looks like the get lean program yeah you're you're freaking your journey was crazy yeah show them your abs dude I don't have any AB show them your abs right now lift it up time's up time Up Lift It
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